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Blackthorn granted Mumbwa project and extra licence

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Blackthorn Resources (ASX:BTR) has received some good news regarding exploration tenure covering the company’s 100 per cent-owned Mumbwa project in Zambia. The Mumbwa project hosts the 187 million tonnes at 1.14 per cent copper Kitumba deposit. The Mumbwa licence, which is currently held on trust for the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary Blackthorn Resources […]

Helix signs $19.5M MoU with Mitsubishi

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Helix Resources (ASX:HLX) has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding with Mitsubishi Materials Corporation covering the Joshua copper project, located in Region IV Chile.   Project location map. Source: Company announcement   The MoU outlines the funding by Mitsubishi of $4.5 million to fund exploration activities to advance the Joshua project over […]

Strickland pleased with Orinoco ‘s progress on Cascavel target in Brazil

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Strickland Resources (ASX:STK) has reported the recent efforts of Orinoco Resources, which has achieved high‐grade gold results at the Curral de Pedra gold project in central Brazil. Orinoco claims the results have confirmed and extended mineralisation previously identified at the project. Strickland is excited by the results as it has an agreement […]

Golden Rim expands Burkina Faso tenements

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Golden Rim Resources (ASX:GMR) has finalised an agreement to acquire an additional gold exploration permit at the company’s Sebba project in Burkina Faso. The new Damkoko permit covers an area of 121.5 square kilometres and is located immediately south of the Nasoulou permit. The acquisition has taken the entire area of the […]

Scotgold completes drilling at Cononish

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Scotgold Resources (ASX:SGZ / AIM:SGZ) has received the results from a recently completed drilling program at the company’s Cononish gold and silver project in the Grampian region of Central Scotland. Scotgold conducted the drilling with the aim of converting inferred resources to the indicated category in the part of the resource that […]

Glencore-Xstrata to hold 11 per cent of global zinc market

Resources sector intelligence provider IntierraRMG has outlined the approval by Xstrata independent directors of the revised US$33 billion takeover bid from Glencore last week, to not only create the formation of the world’s third-largest mining business in terms of market capitalisation, it will also result in the creation of an entity that will hold an […]

Manas joins forces with Central Asia in Kazakhstan

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Manas Resources (ASX:MSR) has entered into a joint venture agreement with ASX‐listed Central Asia Resources (ASX:CVR) on Central Asia’s 95 per cent‐owned Altyntas gold project. The Altyntas gold project covers the Altyntas, Kepken and Kengir gold prospects in the Akbakai region of central Kazakhstan, Central Asia.   Location plan of the Altyntas […]

Rox set to commence drilling at Fisher East

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Rox Resources (ASX:RXL) has voiced its intention to commence further Rotary Air Blast (RAB) drilling at the Fisher East nickel prospect. The Fisher East prospect is situated within the company’s Mt Fisher project, located north of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia. Rox said the drilling is being carried out to follow up and […]

Tiger scores high-grade copper results at Kipoi

THE DRILL SERGEANT: Dual-listed Tiger Resources (ASX:TGS, TSX:TGS) has released high-grade results from a diamond drilling program conducted at Kipoi North, a deposit situated within the boundaries of the company’s Kipoi copper project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Tiger said it would use the results to upgrade Kipoi North’s existing JORC-standard Inferred Mineral Resource […]

Nullagine JV hits 5Mt export mark for BC Iron

THE BOURSE WHISPERER: Australian iron ore producer, BC Iron (ASX:BCI), through the Nullagine Iron Ore Joint Venture (NJV), has now exported more than five million tonnes of ore since commencement of operations. The NJV is located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia and is a 50:50 unincorporated joint venture between BC Iron and Fortescue […]